News for CESSS
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Climate change anxiety investigated in one of the largest international studies to date
Maria Ojala, affiliated with CESSS, is a co-author in one of the biggest multinational studies yet about young adults and climate change-related distress. Main author to the newly published article is Charles Ogunbode at Nottingham University. The study...
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New research school about sustainable water usage and societal planning
Erik Hysing and Monika Berg, affiliated with CESSS, were part of a successful application to Formas for 36.8 million SEK dedicated to starting a cross-disciplinary research school. The main applicant was Ida Andersson, associate professor in Human...
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Creating environmental expertise in early-career researchers
The role of an academic is to generate and communicate knowledge through research, teaching, and service engagement for the general public. Balancing these three tasks is not always easy. But could engagement in expert organizations help foster...
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How do young people relate to climate change, and what can developmental psychologists learn from it?
What insights can developmental psychology get from climate-change research with young people? In a narrative review published in the European Journal of Developmental Psychology, Maria Ojala provides an overview of research that has focused on young...
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Research funding received for sociological projects on transformative change
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) annually announces funding for senior lecturers and professors with the aim to complete research that has already reached an advanced stage. This year, Rolf Lidskog, professor in sociology at Örebro University and member in...
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Understanding transformative societal change towards a sustainable future
In their special report on global warming of 1.5°C (SR15), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that rapid transformational change is needed to reach the global temperature targets of the Paris Agreement. But what does...
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Transformative learning through prefiguring sustainable futures?
Trying to make climate-friendly food choices in a not-so-sustainable society can be a difficult task. What conflicts do young people who swim against the current face in their everyday lives and how do they cope with these? How can such prefigurative...
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Sustainable lifestyles as a positive consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic?
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of global society and forced people to cope with the various negative consequences brought upon them. At the same time, this disruption presented a window of opportunity for transformative change, giving...
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A Human Nature: Risks, Regulations, and Representations
A festschrift titled En mänsklig natur: risker, reglering och representationer was published on the occasion of the CESSS member Ylva Uggla’s retirement. The book, edited by Rolf Lidskog and Erik Löfmarck, contains twelve chapters written by Uggla’s...
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What influences sustainable consumption among youths?
Consumption of sustainable food is crucial for climate change mitigation and requires the involvement of people of all ages, in particular young people. In an article recently published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public...